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Japanese
Proverb
木に竹を接ぐ • (ki ni take o tsugu)
- to graft a bamboo on a tree; to make the situation absurd
2016 March 11, Hirokazu Kore-eda, “「歴史修正主義」に抗するために [To Resist Historical Revisionism]”, in KOREEDA.COM (blog):木に竹を接ぐように、水に油を一緒にしたような変更は、「常識では考えられない」と。- ki ni take o tsugu yō ni, mizu ni abura o isshō ni shita yō na henkō wa, "jōshiki de wa kangaerarenai" to
- that common sense would not think of changes such as grafting bamboo to a tree, or adding oil to water.